There are probably at least three Knight families in the family tree, all from England and arriving in America in the early seventeenth century. Joanna was the daughter of Robert and Margaret Grimley Knight.
Joanna married Rowland Young who had come from Buckinghamshire, England to York, Maine in 1637. He was the son of Rowland and named his oldest son Rowland. He was a fisherman by trade. No connection has been found between Rowland's family and the Young family from Maine who would marry Joanna's descendant about six generations later and who were also ancestors of great grandma Lemira and who also came to America around 1620.
Joanna lived next door in Maine to George Norton, a brother-in-law of Sylvester Stover who would marry Joanna's granddaughter who was one of my grandmas.
Rowland died in 1685 and willed everything to Joanna. When she died in 1698, she willed to four of her children. Perhaps the other four had died.
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